Only two infantry units available for deployment?

LE

According to the Telegraph to-day only 2 Para (who are just returned from Iraq and undergoing Bowman conversion) and 1 R Irish ("the toughest unit in the army") are available to deploy as reinforcements to Afghanistan.

Has there been another round of cuts?

Over'? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!â

ADC

According to the Telegraph to-day only 2 Para (who are just returned from Iraq and undergoing Bowman conversion) and 1 R Irish ("the toughest unit in the army") are available to deploy as reinforcements to Afghanistan.

'There is much to learn from the British: their reticence about disclosing details, their clear expertise in human intelligence, their non-hysterical reaction to very real threats. Many Americans may have an inferiority complex about things British -- the refinement, the style and, of course, those accents' -

War Hero

According to the Telegraph to-day only 2 Para (who are just returned from Iraq and undergoing Bowman conversion) and 1 R Irish ("the toughest unit in the army") are available to deploy as reinforcements to Afghanistan.

LE

Even in my day 67-90 there where never enough infantry.
john
I do think that some who have nevered served think you just give a man a rifle (almost said gun ) and hey presto he's an Infantryman. Never was never will be.

Swinger

correct me if i'm wrong, but the Gurkhas are the only unit that are respected as fighting troops by the Afghans. This stemmed back from when the gurkhas where there. Ronnie 8781, why dont you trust them??

LE

John Masters 'Bugles and a Tiger' tells some good tales on fighting the Pathan up on the NW Frontier.
I remember his comments on how the Pathan only carried his rifle, a few rounds and perhaps a chappati and water skin. Made him very mobile for he could shoot and scoot at his convienience.
Could it be that now his ancestors carry light and heavy MGs, RPGs and recoliless rifles he now not so mobile and leaves himself open to attack by modern ground attack ac.
john
The troops are doing an unbilevable job as good as the lack of supprt given on the political level.

LE

With increasing committments and a smaller pool of infantry to draw from its time to ask some fundamental questions about what the infantry do such as why is there almost a brigade's worth of resource tied up on ceremonial duties. See link to previous discussion.